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Main  Framer to Framer  Mending TORN SILK... UHHGGG
	Topic: Mending TORN SILK... UHHGGG
?	posted 10/14/2012 12:56:00 PM by Paul Ganade E-mail: paulganade@lycos.com	[ Post your reply ]
	Yup... what i was afraid to happened... did happened! I had torn art embroidery on silk. Old and antique art on silk and I need some help. I was thinking of using Fusion 2000 and drymounting the art to another piece of silk the same color. or.. I could lightly spraymount the substrate and carefully mending the tear back together. LMKWYT
!	posted 11/9/2012 3:00:00 AM by Nozomi E-mail: tishau@hotmail.com
	Great concept.Although the price is steep, this would be a great cotversanion piece.With less people getting hard copies of pictures, between displaying pictures on computer screens, tvs, digital frames, there is still something about having a hard copy. This looks almost like an award or piece of art.Great find Greg.
!	posted 10/19/2012 3:07:00 PM by Paul E-mail: paulganade@lycos.com
	Thankyou again loubradley! You are Awesome! I checked you tube to see if there was anyone showing this technique and sure enough found conservator, Helen Young at the Smithsonian National Musuem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cokmKzwtk
!	posted 10/18/2012 9:48:00 PM by Louise Bradley E-mail: loubradley@bigpond.com
	If you are not experienced with hinging you might want to ask a paper conservator to do the repair. If you are confident that you can do it you might use a fine Japanese tissue like a 14gsm 100% Kozo paper sourced from an archival materials supplier. You need to apply a freshly made, thinned starch paste. Apply it with a brush in a thin layer. Paste the repair out on mount board so that some of the moisture is absorbed by the board and not the artwork. The repair must be carefully dried so that the artwork does not cockle. Set the artwork face down on blotter and Reemay, (spun polyester). Apply the repair to the tear, place Reemay on top then blotter. Place a weight over the repaired area. Change the blotter after a very short time, say 30 seconds. Remove the remay after around a minute and keep moving the blotter for the next hour or so. You are trying to wick the moisture away from the repair area quickly. If you do not dry the repair carefully, and under weight, you can damage the artwork further. Think seriously about consulting a conservator if you are unsure about this.
!	posted 10/18/2012 5:15:00 AM by paulganade E-mail: paulganade@lycos.com
	Thank you for your reply loubradly. Would you be able to elaborate your technique with the Japanese tissue and starch paste. I am thinking using the starch paste is a brilliant idea however a little curious on the use of the tissue.
!	posted 10/18/2012 4:01:00 AM by Louise Bradley E-mail: loubradley@bigpond.com
	Don''t drymount it without the consent of the owner. Drymounting something that fragile would be irreversible. Old silk, as you have found, can be unbelievably brittle. You probably should contact a conservator. The tear may be easily repaired with Japanese tissue and starch paste. Once repaired mount the piece using unbuffered rag boards and UV filtering acrylic. Light causes silk to deteriorate rapidly.